Supplemental Reference Material
According to EPA predictions, approximately 50 gigawatts of retirements of baseload coal generation could occur between 2016 and 2020 due to its proposed regulations to reduce CO2 from existing coal-fueled power plants commonly called EPA’s Clean Power Plan. This is in addition to approximately 70 gigawatts of coal- fueled generation that EPA acknowledges has already retired or will retire this decade due to other factors. This combined total of lost generation is enough to power 60 million homes. Almost every state would experience retirements shown on the maps and spreadsheet from EPA’s data base. Greater or fewer Clean Power Plan retirements, and differences in associated jobs, electricity costs and output from manufacturing and agriculture based economies might occur depending upon a state’s ability to achieve EPA’s very high levels of plant unit and consumer end use energy efficiency, natural gas generating unit capacity factor, and new renewable and nuclear generating unit deployments on EPA’s extremely ambitious schedule.